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Yukon Brad Booth leaves Full Tilt for GR88.com! |
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Friday, 13 November 2009 |
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As reported on the Bluff Magazine website: Brad “Yukon” Booth signs on with new poker site GR88.com is one of the newest members of Merge Network of online poker sites, and to help promote their brand they’ve recruited Brad “Yukon” Booth. A former Full Tilt Poker and Doyle’s Room pro, Booth has joined on as GR88.com ’s official spokesman and Head of Poker Development. The latter title is likely to be especially important to Booth, who was among those taken for a ride during the superuser scandals. “Yukon Brad’s talent, undeniable work ethic, and desire for fairness makes him the perfect partner of GR88.com,” said Peter Karroll, CEO of International Arts Management, the parent company of GR88.com. “Our site offers players around the world premium poker and casino games, programs and tournaments all set within a secure and trust-worthy environment.” Click on the GR88.com banner above to collect your 100% deposit bonus and start playing today! |
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2009 Dawson City Tournament Results |
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Saturday, 25 July 2009 |
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Dale Grey from Diamond Tooth Gerties just passed along the tourny schedule for this summer, including the famous White Ram series in September. Don't miss it! Full details for the September White Ram series of tournaments available here . (PDF) | Date | Event | Buy-in/Rebuy | | | Friday Aug 7 | Couples tourney No-Limit with rebuys | $125/$50 | Results | | Saturday Aug 8 | Guys and Dolls No-Limit with rebuys | $125/$50 | | Sunday Aug 9 | Ladies tourney Limit with rebuys | $75/$25 | | Friday Sept 11 | Satellite tourneys -
10 player tables top player gets 2x$100.00 tourney vouchers | $22 | | | Saturday Sept 12 | White Ram Limit with rebuys | $125/$50 | Results | | Sunday Sept 13 | White Ram No-Limit with rebuys | $225.00/$100 | | Monday Sept 14 | White Ram No Limit Freeze Out | $525 | |
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Dawson Poker Player Succumbs to Cancer |
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Monday, 02 March 2009 |
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Last year's White Ram Poker Tournament Champion, Shirley Conklin, passed away at the end of February after a long and hard fought battle with cancer. Shirley and her husband Jim were a common sight at Diamond Tooth Gerties Casino in Dawson City where both have had great success in tournament play. Shirley (right in photo) will be missed greatly - she was a super nice woman. |
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'Yukon' Brad Booth cashes in the $15,000 Fiesta al Lago Main Event. |
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 |
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With a field chock full of top level pro's attracted by the $1.4 million first place prize generated by 368 players buying in at $15,000 each, Brad Booth remained amongst the chip leaders until he busted in 22nd place for a $31,095 payday. His next event is the Caesar's $10k event starting Tuesday, October 28th. Stay tuned for results on what will prove to be yet another pro-heavy field. |
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Yukon Brad Booth hosts and wins Vancouver Poker Tournament |
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 |
Details are hard to find on this event, however host Brad 'Yukon' Booth won the Vancouver Downtown Showdown Poker Tournament.
Poker Star, Brad Booth is a very colorful character who is home grown from Mission, BC where he started out as a pizza delivery boy at the Mission Little Caesars - Booth’s pizza gig financed his Poker career!
Considered by many poker superstars to be "the best unknown no-limit hold'em player in the world"— a label first bestowed by Phil Hellmuth on Card Player's "The Circuit" radio show, Canadian Brad "Yukon" Booth has firmly established himself amongst poker's elite players. This past June he played his way to a 3rd-place finish in the World Poker Tour's Mandalay Bay Championship, earning himself a hefty payday of nearly $320,000.
Dates: Friday September 19 - Sunday September 21
Edgewater and all the Poker tournament players will celebrate Brad’s birthday on September 20.
Buy-in: $500 + $50; Prize pool if sold out will be $250,000 |
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Diamond Tooth Gerties White Ram Poker Tournament Series |
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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We don't have full results from the White Ram tourney series, however Whitehorse player Blake Wildfong took second in the Limit Hold'em w/rebuys event, well known rounder Jerry Carter took second in the No Limit Hold'em w/rebuys event, and another Whitehorse player, Derrick Law took third in the new $520 NLHE freeze out event. More information will be found on the forums here (soon I hope!): http://www.yukonpoker.com/CMS/forum/viewtopic.php?p=227#227 |
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Yukoners cash in BC's Coast to Coast Tournament Series |
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
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This series of tourneys at the River Rock casino in Richmond, BC, was hosted by 'Yukon' Brad Booth and Gavin Smith who is originally from Guelph, Ontario (hence the Coast to Coast title... yes, we know that Guelph isn't the other coast, but it's pretty far away!) Yukon fielded about 10 players for these events and James Lopushinsky (twice), Sam Jurovich, and Brad himself cashed in separate tournaments. Pictures and more details to come. A list of all the winners from each event is available at www.bclc.com/cm/Casino/coasttocoastpoker08.htm |
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Two Whitehorse Players Win Seats |
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Friday, 25 April 2008 |
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Kayce Edstrom and Sam Jurovich each won a single table satellite, earning them a $1100 seat into 888 Poker's $3 million dollar guaranteed tournament held online on April 26th. Best of luck to you both and we'll be cheering you onto the final table! |
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Saturday March 29 $100 Tourney Results |
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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Congratulations to Whitehorse resident Darrell Peters for besting a field of 62 entrants to take first place's $3000 prize. Seven places paid out, I hope to have full results soon. Darrell got heads up with Shane (last name unknown) in a repeat of the 2005 Dawson City White Ram final table where Shane took first to Darrell's second place finish. |
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2008 Canadian Heads Up Poker Championships |
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Sunday, 09 March 2008 |
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Heads-Up Entertainment has announced the second Canadian Heads Up Championship series at the Deerfoot Casino in Calgary on March 5-9, 2008. Confirmed players include: Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Joe Hachem, 'Yukon' Brad Booth, Greg 'FBT' Mueller, Huck Seed, Mel Judah, Gavin Smith, Bill Edler, Dave Scharf, and reigning champion James Lopushinsky. Please check the website below for additional information.
http://www.canadianchampionshippoker.com/ UPDATE: Reigning champ James Lopushinsky made the final 16, but was defeated before the money payouts for 8 and up. 1996 WSOP Main Event champion Huck Seed bested 'Yukon' Brad Booth in a best of three to win the 2008 Canadian Heads Up Championship. Huck takes home $100,000 for his win, while Brad claims $50,000 for his runner up finish. Congratulations!! CANADIAN OPEN POKER CHAMPIONSHIP
HEADS-UP MAIN EVENT Mar. 6th - Mar. 9th Buy-In $5000 ($4650 + $350) | BUY-IN | 64x$4650 = $297,600.00 | | CHARITY PORTION (2.5%) | = $7,440.00 | | TOTAL PRIZE POOL | = $290,160.00 | | Place | Prize | Winners | | 1st | $100,000.00 | Huck Seed | | 2nd | $50,160.00 | Brad Booth | | 3rd | $30,000.00 | Graeme Putt | | 4th | $30,000.00 | Gavin Smith | | 5th | $20,000.00 | Nghi Van Tran | | 6th | $20,000.00 | Joe Hachem | | 7th | $20,000.00 | Van Marcus | | 8th | $20,000.00 | Shawn Buchanan |
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2008 NBC Heads-Up Championships |
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
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My predictions and results for this tournament can be found here . Congratulations to Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson, who bested Andy Bloch 2 out of 3 matches to win the tournament and $500,000 prize money. |
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